tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84770674274702789422024-02-20T12:13:03.451-07:00Many Are Called But Few Are Frozen~ Elder McKay Wilding's service to the Russia Vladivostok Mission ~
June 2015 - June 2017 ~Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-88026406651548271352017-06-11T15:20:00.000-06:002020-03-14T15:24:59.784-06:00WELCOME HOME-COMING!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The chapel was packed with family and friends. It was full. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">McKay did an </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A M A Z I N G </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">job! It was one of the best homecoming talks I have heard. Man, he is so grown up and speaks so articulately. He was funny, interesting, spiritual, cute, and just did a great job. I was so proud of him. And hearing him speak in Russian always gives me chills. I have no idea how he ever learned that language. He is such a fun and cute kid. I had so many people come up and tell me how good looking he is and how he has truly become a man. I couldn't have been more proud of him. It was so fun to talk to all the people that came to hear him speak. The Connolly's, the Parsons, several missionary moms who boys are serving in Russia (now in the US). And several of his Russian companions. Elder Brower (MTC comp), Elder Lyman (trainer), Elder Bodily (from our city), Elder Crabbe (comp), Elder Parry (just assigned as very last comp when learned they were dissolving the mission), and Sister....I forgot her name.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I told them to do a serious pose for Elder De Sandre (still in Russia) but McKay and Elder Lyman could NOT keep a straight face for even a second. These guys sure do have a lot of fun together. They were talking for almost an hour after the meeting. It did my heart good. I tried to get them to come over even though McKay had to stay for the block, but they didn't. </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They were so fun to watch. McKay was laughing so hard. He loves them and they love him. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Best picture EVER! ↓ (with Grammy and Grampy)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The dinner...</span></b></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-11163707943829106552017-05-25T16:36:00.000-06:002020-03-14T16:37:14.844-06:00Missionary Homecoming Photos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Why put on your suit pants if the only thing showing in the photo will be your head? LOL</span></b></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-85005093647344386882017-05-24T15:47:00.000-06:002020-03-14T15:48:13.766-06:00Russian Treasures<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A few of the things McKay brought back from Russia.</span></b></div>
<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sadly, most were bought in the airport due to him having NO debit card for the past six months. Long story. He got several nesting dolls and even a head form of Putin. haha He brought home a fox skin! Umm..... Yeah. </span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the mom's posted this on Facebook. Not sure who took it and posted it but these are the Vlad 14 at the airport in Korea!!! They are getting closer!</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;">We had to wait quite a while for him to actually make his entrance. Lots of people that came off before them told us the missionaries were at the back of the plane. It seemed like FOREVER! But then... there he was!!!!! OH MY GOSH! He's actually HOME! THERE ARE NO WORDS!!! It is the most amazing feeling in the world to see your son after two long years! Seriously, no words. But somehow, I'll manage to use some anyway. ☺ </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>He is so cute and looks SO GOOD! And he is taller! I didn't want to let him go from my tight hug I had waited two whole years for! Did I mention two years is a dang LONG time!</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-family: "helvetica neue", arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">It was fun watching his reunion with everyone. He had on a cool suit with a purple lining that one of the other missionaries (we can actually call him a missionary now in stead of a volunteer!) gifted him before he left. He said his suits were bad and the pants looked like work pants they were so worn. He had no access to money thanks to his dysfunctional debit card and so he had planned on buying a new suit but was unable to. Amazingly this one fit's him like it was made for him. A miracle McKay said. </b><br />
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Then we dropped the boys off and headed to the church so he could be released (by his own dad). We were there late. I have to say that was the highlight for me sitting there listening to him talk to his Dad about his experiences over there and how it felt to be a volunteer and then hearing him bear such a powerful testimony of the gospel, the people of Russian, the other missionaries, his Mission President, etc. It brought me to tears to see the sincerity in his voice and heart. All I could think of over and over was what a valiant young man he is and what a man he has become and how blessed and fortunate I am to be his mother I sat there in awe of this amazing boy that I sent out and listening to the man he has now become. It gave me chills. I could not hold back the tears. He got a little teary as well. He bore his testimony in Russian and I could feel his conviction, faith, and strength even with the language barrier. It was one of those moments in time I will always remember. It was a bit of heaven on earth. The spirit was there in abundance. Coolest thing ever. I wish I could bottle what he said. So spiritual. His future is bright. What an amazing young man I can tell he was one great missionary. He loves Russia and the people. He truly loves his MP. He truly loved the whole experience. He has grown in so many ways. </span></b><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The best part was when Dave told him that he had a big brother who would have wanted to serve a mission as well and he had a hunch he was there with them. That was the moment I couldn't hold back the tears. It really choked up McKay as well. Him and Tyson were very close and best buds. </span></b><br />
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<b style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am including this little excerpt from a letter Dave wrote to Taylor because he sums it up so well. </span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span>It was a week ago today that I was at the clinic when I received the message that a certain young man would be released from his mission. Looking back it seems like a month with all that has happened since that fateful day. I can only imagine what it has been like for McKay to come to terms and adjust to all that has changed. As human beings we use time to adjust to life’s twists and turns. Time gives us the modality to accommodate and prepare for the anticipated changes that inevitably come. In McKay’s situation a plan was in place for a scheduled return from the Motherland to the Promised Land, but that all got turned on its ear when he was given a few short hours to pack up everything, close an area, and make the necessary arrangements for hastily made travel plans. It sounds like a chapter from an international spy thriller. I’m still not sure how it all came together, or how he made the adjustment to crossing multiple time zones on three separate planes, or how he endured a 10-hour flight from Seoul to Seattle, but when he showed up at the Salt Lake International Airport that little brother of yours looked great! His flight didn’t arrive thirty minutes early like yours did, a topic that was repeatedly brought up on the drive from Brigham to SLC, so by the time he arrived all the principal parties were in place anxiously awaiting his appearance at the top of the escalators. I know you were there in spirit thanks to the marvels of modern technology. It seemed like it took an inordinate amount of time for the four elders to make their way from the gate to baggage claim, as we were repeatedly advised that they were coming from the back of the plane, but once the pilots started showing up I started to wonder what was taking so long. Eventually they made it and you know the rest of the story. We stopped at Nielson’s Frozen Custard on the way home and then McKay, Mom, and I went over to the church to issue his release from his full time missionary labors. By the time we eventually got home it was close to midnight </span><span style="background-color: white;">so you can imagine my surprise when McKay showed up a little after 6:30 a.m. </span><span style="background-color: white;">the next morning to read scriptures. It was something that we had done every day before his mission, but between the jet lag and trying to adjust to all the changes he had been through I wasn’t sure I would see him before </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_310571779" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(204, 204, 204); position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">noon</span></span><span style="background-color: white;">. Suffice it to say that I was greatly impressed. Mom came down and joined us and we’ve been there at the appointed hour ever since.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>I woke up the next morning wondering if it was all a dream. Was my son really home from Russia? He was! And up early to read scriptures with us to boot! SO GOOD TO HAVE HIM HOME! It was a cold morning. Me and the boys all sat around talking to him. It was fun hearing his stories. Then Weston came. We basically all talked about his mission all day. Weston was hilarious. He had us all laughing</b>. <b>So fun to have all these boys back together again! Just like old times! Now if only Taylor was here! I know I keep saying that, but it seems there is always one missing! haha</b></span></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-3439229909657732922017-05-21T21:39:00.003-06:002017-05-21T21:39:53.909-06:00"Well that was unexpected" [McKay's Last Mission Email]<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i><span style="color: #351c75;">***Hello family and friends of Elder Wilding. There have been some big changes the past couple of days concerning our son McKay and the Vladivostok Mission. We received a phone call from Salt Lake on Saturday informing us that McKay would be returning home in four days instead of 46. We got a phone call today informing us he will be coming home even sooner. He arrives on <b><u>Tuesday May 23 at 7:45 pm on Delta Air 311</u></b> His mission has been dissolved and is merging with the Novosibirsk Mission which is directly west of his<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> </span>The official church press release from the First Presidency is below. We are so grateful for your support of him through these past two years and have faith that the Lord's servants have been guided in this change. We will be grateful to get him back on American soil! Our prayers are with the other volunteers as well as his Mission President for their obedience and faith in doing what they have been asked to do, as well as with the Russian saints who will feel a great loss from this change. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: #351c75;">Thank you again for your support! </span></i><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week was crazy, probably the craziest week on the mission. It all started back <span class="m_5101334116636316560m_965623148091097403gmail-aBn">on Friday</span> night when we were on a lesson with Konctantin. We didn't even start the lesson yet and got a call from the AP's saying that we need to come to Artyom with the 1st River Elders either that night or in the morning. They told us that we would be having a meeting with President Perkinson <span class="m_5101334116636316560m_965623148091097403gmail-aBn">tomorrow</span> at 8 in the morning and that we should be praying to accept the will of the Lord. Well, right at first we are freaking out having no idea what is going on or what will happen. We don't know if it is just us or the whole mission. So we ended up just reading the testimony of the 3 witnesses with Konctantin, saying a quick prayer and ran back home. We took a taxi (because of how late it was the buses had stopped running). We get there and find out (to our relief) that the whole mission will be on this meeting and not just the two of us. That night we spent there, I didn't sleep much. Not because I was nervous but because everyone was talking forever and I couldn't fall asleep. So the next day we go to the Artyom church building and see President his wife and Elder Samaykin of the 70. Before we start our meeting we had to get the rest of the mission there through Skype. They just told us that Elder Samaykin was here on assignment from the 1st Presidency and that last Thursday while in the temple they received revelation regarding us. He told us that your mission (the biggest mission in the world) and the Novosibirsk mission (the 2nd biggest mission in the world) are getting combined. And that a new mission president would be coming in about a month to preside over these combined missions and that due to the fact that it is now one mission it doesn't need two mission presidents and that the Perkinsons will be going home. Along with 4 elders who would of ended their missions <span class="m_5101334116636316560m_965623148091097403gmail-aBn">in 6 weeks</span> but now will be going home this week. And that 10 Elders who would have gone home <span class="m_5101334116636316560m_965623148091097403gmail-aBn">in 3 months</span> will be reassigned to stateside missions to finish their labors. It was a shock. It was a complete shock. Then the Perkinsons talked to us for a little bit and bore their testimonies. A lot of people were crying, mostly the ones going to the states. After the meeting president gave me Barr and Perry our departing interviews. It was really good, unexpected but good. I received the news that we need to move out of our apartment as soon as possible and that we would be closing the area. They said we would learn when our planes leave as time goes on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So that's basically the story. I am going to miss Russia a lot... But I'm going back to America! I can't wait to see all of you! It has just happened so fast! I love you all! The mission was the best decision of my life! I have loved every second out here! It has been sooooooo fun! It has changed me! I love the Russian people! I love to be a missionary! It has been the best time of my life.</span></div>
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<em>The First Presidency announces that effective <span class="m_5101334116636316560m_965623148091097403gmail-aBn"><span class="m_5101334116636316560m_965623148091097403gmail-aQJ">July 1</span></span>, the Russia Vladivostok Mission will merge with the Russia Novosibirsk Mission. Doing so requires fewer volunteers to staff the combined mission. In anticipation of this change, volunteers from the Vladivostok mission who were to be released in July will return home in late May, and volunteers who would have returned home in August will be reassigned and complete their service in missions in the United States.</em></div>
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<em>President and Sister Perkinson, who have presided over the Russia Vladivostok Mission for the past two years, have been released. We are grateful for their years of faithful service. The Europe East Area Presidency will supervise the combining of the two missions.</em></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-22785542584676983012017-05-15T12:58:00.002-06:002017-05-15T16:47:31.530-06:00Happy Happy Mothers Day! С Днём Матери!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish all the mothers and especially my own mother a very happy and rewarding Mother's Day. None of us would be here without you, thank you for all you do and all you have done! A mission is a perfect place to be on Mother's Day because you come to realize just how much your mother really does do you for. Skyping home today was happiness! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">President Martino of the 70 and Elder Drachov (also from the 70) came and visited our mission this week. We had an awesome zone conference about how we can improve our work and had principles taught that will bless me not only on my mission but forever. The invitation to act is always the most important part. That is the only way we will become. Elder Martino taught the difference between a follower and a disciple...a disciple wants to become like who he is following. And not only wants to but works to. Elder Drachov is so so funny! He is from the neighboring mission and really had good experiences with missionary work that he shared with us. And he has 6 kids! That is almost unheard of in Russia. He told me that I looked like President Monson! I don't know if I agree, but of course I was flattered.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A lot of members flew in from Sakhalin for the District conference that was held the following day and it was good to see some familiar faces. We had the great opportunity of taking Вася (a 17 yr old from Sakh) on splits with us into the work! All of our plans worked out which in itself was a huge miracle! He is a great teacher and a exceptional young man. He will be an outstanding missionary!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Victory Day we were able to see the parade and take in a little of the Russian spirit of this special day. They had so many casualties from WW2. We were able to see the posterity of those who died carry a picture of their ancestors on a stick during the parade. The crowd was as it seemed numberless and it seemed that there was no end in sight of all those hosting a picture. There was also many cool military vehicles. We were able to meet with our friend from Zambia who brought his friend from South Africa. While we were together we ran into people from India (they area lot darker than the movies show) Brazil and a few other countries. All these people are at college at the university on Russian Island. When we were walking around by then it was amazing and funny at the amount of people that asked to take pictures with them. They say it happens everywhere they go. And someone joked that they should charge 50 rubles for every picture. If they did they would be loaded in no time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know this is God's work. He leads and guides His church through His living prophet Thomas S. Monson (who apparently I kinda look like). I love when the members of the 70 come. They are proof of what happens to a person when they live a Christ centered life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We reviewed Images of Christ and read brief reviews of what the Apostles taught about Christ at our last General Conference. We were encouraged to ponder these messages and seek for more personal revelation each time we study the words of Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We were encouraged to read the white handbook as to the opportunity to talk to our mothers on this Mother's Day. We do hope that you enjoyed you Mother's Day phone call and we honor you with good choices! Thank you for your prayers in behalf of the work of The Lord!</span></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-41063140251395672282017-05-08T07:00:00.001-06:002017-05-08T07:00:34.080-06:00Just Like Old Times<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I feel somewhat lucky I am able to write this letter today. This day has been quite a fiasco. To start off we went to our main place where we always go but for whatever reason "<a href="http://myldsmail.net/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">myldsmail.net</a>" would just not load. So after 30 minutes of juggling with that we went to another place in Center which worked for about 47 seconds flat, and then out of nowhere the power went out. We planned on waiting there until the power came on but after 10 minutes of waiting the workers said that they don't know when the power will be back on and that they are closing up the store right now because it will probably be a long time. But all hope was not lost, we knew of a different place about 15 minutes away on bus that we could go to. But, that was closed due to Victory Day, a holiday that will be <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0">tomorrow</span>. On our way to the place that was closed, we saw a different internet cafe that none of us have been to before. We went in to try it, but it was a super dark and sketchy place. And to add to that, their computers had no internet. As a last hope we came back to the 2nd place we visited and to our great pleasure the power had been turned back on and now were in business!</div>
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This has been a nostalgic week, mainly just because me and Elder De Sandre were on splits and he made pizza. He has a gift! We met up with a man named Ivan who I met at a bus stop a week or two ago. We met near a church and started talking to him and an older guy comes up to us and says "Mormons?" and then tells us he knows a lady that goes to our church. After he left we looked around and Ivan was nowhere in sight. We went searching for him, he simple disappeared. No longer having plans, we decided to go to a soccer field to see if anyone was playing. We went up to about four teenage kids and they said we could play with them. My soccer skills are not up to par. We were having a great time laughing while we tried to play. After the game we got their numbers and planned to meet up again. </div>
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Another miracle: on our way to the picnic an 18 yr old girl comes up to us and asks, "You're Mormons right?" (now that the coats are off we are getting recognized a lot). We affirmatively responded and she told us that she goes to the ДВФУ (the college in Vlad) and is studying Mormons. She told us that there is a lot of negative info about us and wants to do a report showing that we are good normal people. What? This never happens! She was way cool too! </div>
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Well, it has been a fast week. I have been getting a lot of sun and my arms are feeling it. </div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-55402181613379030282017-04-30T21:40:00.000-06:002017-05-01T21:44:50.847-06:00Service With the Nuns!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I actually took notes in my planner this week of what happened so now I don't have the excuse that I don't know what happened. I wish I would have done this sooner, it takes like 2 minutes to do it but it is the difference if I will remember my mission or not. Also because of this my journal writing has gotten better! What a awesome week we just had. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">To start it off we had a radical family home evening with a recently married couple who has a frenzy for Farkle. We discussed the beautifully simple truths of the doctrine of Christ and they feed us some tasty pastries. Later in the week they called us over to help them do a pemont (repair) on their house. We pulled up the roll out floor lining in one room and then helped them lay down a new floor. My allergies were going nuts the whole time. Speaking of service we officially are out of the old church building. We had one last sweep of the building. After that we were asked to transport around 30-40 suitcases from the 4th floor to an apartment that is just a block or two away. The suitcases belong to all the elders and sisters who brought two to their mission (you usually have one and keep one in storage). It went fast because all 9 of the volunteers was there to help.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="m_-5423502504609824308gmail-aBn">On Tuesday</span> we helped our investigator K get started on his family history. Before we started he showed me pictures of the outside of a zoo that he went to. He let his kids go in but he wouldn't go. He said it was because it was too dangerous haha. Then on the way home that night on the bus I got a phone call from an Elder in Artyom and two 30 year old women got very excited when they heard me speaking English. They always think that we're Brits!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="m_-5423502504609824308gmail-aBn">On Wednesday</span> we met with a tall less active that is involved in a pyramid scheme. I spent basically the whole time trying to convince him that he was in pyramid scheme to no avail. Poor guy. And Elder Bacon found this guy from San Diego in the same cafe we were in. After that we went and met with our friend J from Zambia and he had with him his friend from South Africa. They showed us their campus and we saw how cool it was. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had service with the nun's! There are two nun's living in Vladivostok who are from America and they called us up to see if we could come and help them clear out their attic. The house they live in used to belong to someone else and there was SO much junk in there. Let me list a few of the things we found: a dog's skull, a mouse caught in a trap who had been there for probably 5 years already and so many fish movies. I was on the wheel barrow the whole time and when they brought things down from the attic, I wheeled it over to the dump that was a football field away. We moved a lot of stuff and put some of the things in the wrong area and had to move it again. Then nun's also fed us lunch! We had chicken with rice with some amazing jam! We were able to hear what they believe and we told them what we believe. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It truly is a blessing to serve The Lord and His children here in Vladivostok where the Church is stronger and the people are so friendly! The opportunity to meet together as a Vladivostok District once a week and review names and talk about spiritual matters is a wonderful blessing! </span></div>
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We welcome Sister Jossie from the West and realize that this is her last transfer before her 18 months come to an end. We also welcome Elders Gee and Elder Barr from Artyom who travel far to get here and are always welcome. Elder Wilding invited us to prepare for Zone Conference with the Martino's by reading Alma 4-7. Elder DeSandre offered a prayer and led us in the Mission Statement. </div>
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Our topic of spiritual discussion was from the Preach My Gospel, chapter 3, lesson 2 second half of the lesson where it talks about the Atonement of Jesus Christ for as we rely on the Atonement of Jesus Christ, He can help us endure our trials, sicknesses, and pain. We can be filled with joy, peace, and consolation. All that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. We talked about the spirit world and judgement day and the three degrees of glory and how we are truly blessed to have this knowledge! It gives us even more reason to be urgent and diligent in our desires to share this Gospel of Jesus Christ!</div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-42469772852201030912017-04-24T06:50:00.001-06:002017-04-24T06:54:17.257-06:00Workin in Churkin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">It is now time for my mind to pull up all of its hatches so that my memory of this last weeks events can come back so that I can give at least a decent report of what has been learned and what has happened these last few days. It has been said that you never learn something until it is taught to you 7 times in 7 different ways, that appears to be true. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week was great! Everything is good in Vladivostok. We still are experiencing a drought of new investigators but we have a good likely candidate in a 26 year old college student from Zambia. He is a 7th day Adventist, speaks great English and Russian and hopefully with fill the truth of the gospel message. We were going to meet <span class="m_-1761476677546893501gmail-aBn">on Sunday</span> but he said it was too cold for him to wait until we make it to center (40 min. bus ride) so we are meeting <span class="m_-1761476677546893501gmail-aBn">this Wednesday</span> after Russian practice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Also we have been working with some promising less actives. One, Hope, who is a mother of 3 children, was so happy to hear us when we called. We talked about repentance on our lesson and it went great. Another less active we are working with is named K and he is a way tall and pretty funny member who said himself that he wants to come back but doesn't see it as a huge priority yet. We are going to keep on working with them and keeping on going through our area. We don't have a ton of actives in Churkin and therefore we have a lot that we can work with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I gave a talk <span class="m_-1761476677546893501gmail-aBn">on Sunday</span>. It went good, Sister Jossie who goes home at the end our this transfer and Sister Thomas both bore their testimonies because they are new to the branch. It is still fun having church in a 5 star hotel. The staff always brings in like 50-60 water bottles and 4 microphones and has everything set up like we were having a huge conference. I think sometimes the workers are surprised at the little kids running out in the halls haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The gospel is true, the doctrine of Christ is the means by which we can make it back into God's presence. The weather has been warm lately with a few cold days.</span></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-40112163811593473672017-04-16T06:52:00.000-06:002017-04-24T06:53:01.732-06:00Easter!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Russia celebrated this marvelous holiday on the same day that you all did in America, which is a rarity. We celebrated the holiday in remembrance of the Savior and His resurrection. The members brought us boiled eggs and candies and even cupcakes which were gladly received. They have a special greeting in Russia that I talked about last year where you say, Jesus is risen and the person you say it to responds with, truly He is risen. It is a great tradition they bring with them from their Orthodox church. Although I heard it a lot less this year than last. We are lucky to have knowledge of the Savior and his atoning sacrifice and have the hope that that brings! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We met with a new man named D that was just in our phone and we finally got a hold of him. He didn't smoke or drink and was a really tall nice man. The day after we meet with him though he texted us that he is moving back to his home town way far away that very day at <span class="m_-2889498329912265675gmail-aBn">5:30</span> and then after that he was going to work on the sea for a year. It is too bad, but he brought one of his friends who we can meet with in the future!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was another fast week! We have the commandments for our good, to keep us from regrets and sorrow! The more I am out here the more and more that becomes clearer.</span></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-17850217245431455352017-04-09T22:23:00.001-06:002017-04-09T22:23:02.986-06:00The Work Goes On<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Transfers came and I'm staying in Vlad! Home of the best Sharma I have
ever tasted. Me and Elder Bacon will be serving together once more.
This transfer was weird, almost everything stayed the same, and the only
change in our district is that one of our sisters is leaving. Plus 2
other sisters are coming. And the work goes on as it always seems to
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session in Russia, and from what I got out of it we had a really awesome
general conference! It was great to hear the words of our living
prophet and his invitation to read the Book of Mormon everyday. One of
our investigators who we met with after asked us what the Prophet
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officially moved out of our old church building and are in the Hyundai
Hotel, a 5 star hotel. It is a really nice place. The first time I
walked in it I heard the obviously not Russian people all speaking
English to each other which is not a common site in Russia. We have two
fairly same rooms constantly that we have if we need to teach lessons or
hold district meeting or other stuff like that, but on Sundays we have a
large hall that holds 250 people (way more that we need) for 5 hours.
So it turns out that sacrament meeting will be in the big hall and then
after that the primary and other groups will go to the two smaller rooms
and have their classes there while the rest of us stay in the large
hall. We watched conference there <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0">last Sunday</span> as a branch and it went well! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
went to our Branch President's house and brought dinner with us and ate
with them. They are a hilarious family and we were laughing the whole
night! This was our first time going there and we got on a bus at a non
ideal spot and we road the bus for <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0">1:30</span>
before we made it to our destination. And I forgot a book to read on
the way! Now that I have been on my mission this long I have come to appreciate long buses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We had a fantastic Russian practice with one of our members who works at the large
university on Russian Island and teaches Russian to foreigners. She is
teaching us Russian the way the schools do it and I think I like the way
I did it better. Too much homework. I'm on a mission, I don't got
time for that! But the lessons are fun and she can answer all of our
questions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Still on the lookout for new people
to teach. We found a place designed for street basketball that was
actually pretty cool! We played some basketball and made some friends.
We are on the look for the elect and trying to find natural ways to meet
them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for all you do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Aquarium</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> The City (Vlad)</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"> The hair cutting process</span></b></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-9620053289308210912017-04-02T22:26:00.000-06:002017-04-09T22:28:05.123-06:00Sunny Days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">March is already behind us with less madness than in previous years.
April Fools came and went without many pranks even though they celebrate
it here. I should have done something but I kinda forgot about it.
Transfers are <span class="m_-6757334274171872332gmail-aBn">this Thursday</span>
and I am about 99% positive that I am staying. I could see me moving to
a different apartment with a different companion but I would be
surprised if I left Vladivostok. We still haven't seen conference, we
will watch it in the Hyundai Hotel next week. But with that let's get
into what happened last week:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="m_-6757334274171872332gmail-aBn">On Monday</span>
we had family night with a great couple who recently got married. For
the majority of the night they were just making blini. I can't complain
though, Prussians make really good blini. After our spiritual thought we
played Farkle and they liked it more than I thought they would which is
good! Then <span class="m_-6757334274171872332gmail-aBn">on Tuesday</span>
it was our turn to be in charge of Culinary Night. Sister Crookston of
the office couple gave us a really good recipe to make called "Dutch
Oatmeal Cake". It was super tasty and everyone got a ton because we
had, lets say, less than we expected. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We made it out to Russian Island <span class="m_-6757334274171872332gmail-aBn">on Wednesday</span>
to meet up with a member that I knew in Ussuriysk who was our Russian
practice teacher. The Campus is amazing! It is very nice and new and has a
lot of foreigners that attend. We saw one of our friends there (that we
meet at Burger King) who is from India (if you saw him you would guess
that he is from Africa) who is studying to become a doctor. In Russia it
is only 5-6 years of study. But he doesn't speak Russian so I don't
know how his studies work out. Anyways, Russian practice was good as ever
but she gave us a ton of homework that we have to do before next meeting
next week... It was pretty simple stuff but it is so many assignments.
Russians hold true to their saying, "Repetition is the mother of
learning".</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Like I said we have been playing a
lot of basketball lately, honestly maybe too much but we are trying to
find new ways to use our talents to find people. We found a nice free
place where we can play and we have meet some cool people. Not only have
we had the opportunity to play but we also got to go and watch
"Spartak", the professional team of Vladivostok, play! They have a
player on their team from America who is a potential investigator. They
were down the first 3 quarters and most of the 4th, but came up big at the
end and won with a big lead. They had this one guy that was absolutely
awful until the last 4 minutes but he came out to be the hero and he was giving signatures after the game.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We were able
to go an splits with the Elders in center and I got to go to their
apartment. Talk about a view, they are on the 9th floor I think and they
look over the bay and it is beautiful. We taught the gospel of Jesus
Christ to their investigator who is close to baptism. The lesson was
good. The gospel really is true, and the meek and humble of the earth
will find it.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Also a big part of this last
transfer has been us moving the church out of itself. We will be moving
to a temporary new location (the Hyundai Hotel), which caused us to box
up everything in the church and move the chairs and whatever else was
there, up to a different room that they rented. Part of this moving
involved us taking down the projector screen. It seemed simple enough,
unscrew the screws and it would come off but when we took them off it
stayed where it was about 10-15 feet in the air. We left to go do
something else when a member goes and tries to work with it and all of a
sudden it crashes to the ground, bringing part of the ceiling with it
haha. Fortunately nobody got hurt!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I love you all! I love to be out here!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding</span></div>
</div>
Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-24672221593288726262017-03-27T07:23:00.000-06:002017-03-30T07:41:41.179-06:00We Are All Enlisted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks everyone for wishing me happy birthday! </span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">As I
said zone conference fell on the 22nd and I got surprised with a big
chocolate cake and the whole zone sang me happy birthday. I was in the
kitchen getting food ready for zone conference and then Sister Perkinson
grabs my arm and drags me to the front of the room where we were having
zone conference, turns a white board that was next to me around and
there was written "Happy Birthday Elder Wilding". Then everyone
proceeded to sing but then did an arrangement that I have never heard
before where they sing the three birthday songs but it sounds like just
one. Needless to say it was a fantastic birthday that I won't forget
about
for a long time. </span><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Zone conference went great! As I
said I was in charge of the food and the company that we hired to
deliver lunch showed up more than a hour late which sucked but we ended
up just having a cake and ice cream break, went back to zone conference
and started up with that again until the food came and then we took
another break. You never know how much goes into these things until you
have to do it, and I had a relatively small part and it made me be more
grateful for the other zone conferences that I have had. We talked about
the Plan of Salvation and the Gathering of Israel and Mastering
Ourselves. We even had a Russian branch member come and teach us
pronunciation which as I have said before is the hardest part of the
language. I came off wanting to be better and try my hardest. President
Perkinson always is good at getting us motivated.</span></div>
</div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I
met a couple of guys who study at the university on Russian Island.
There was three of them and one was from Iraq, the other from Syria and the
last from Yemen. I have never met anyone from those countries before.
They spoke great English and were super cool and nice. Just another
reason why missions are SO COOL! You meet so many people that you never
would have met before. I'm having a blast out here still!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="m_2382599942756181692gmail-aBn">On Tuesday</span>
we have an activity called Culinary Night were we usually prepare food
and explain how we do it in English and it gets a lot of people to come,
like 30-40. This week because of construction going on in the church
Elder De Sandre showed how to do 1st Aid because he was a medic back at
home. It was a riot, he is hilarious! He got ketchup to symbolize blood
and used the crowd as his volunteers to show how to act in a variety of
solutions. If I came out with anything form his training it is how to
remove gloves that have blood/ketchup on them.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Then <span class="m_2382599942756181692gmail-aBn">on Thursday</span>
I went and did splits with Elder De Sandre and it was just like the good
old days back in Angarsk. At night we were going through the pictures he
took in Angarsk when we were together and I really started to miss
those times. Back when it was me, him, Lyman and Sumner in the same
apartment. Those are some of the funnest times I have ever had in my
life.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="m_2382599942756181692gmail-aBn">On Saturday</span>
we were able to play basketball at a indoor court. I started out pretty
bad missing lay up after lay up but by the end I was draining 3's to my surprise. Then <span class="m_2382599942756181692gmail-aBn">on Sunday</span>
we took the sacrament to a old lady who has 7 pets, 5 cats and 2 dogs.
Her place actually wasn't all that bad and she was super nice.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">The
work continues, we don't have any super solid investigators as of the
second but we have K that we are working with and once it gets
a little warmer we will be hitting the streets playing basketball and
doing other things in order to find new people to teach.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">-Love</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u>From Sister Perkinson:</u></span></b></span></div>
<div>
<span style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Dear Brother and Sister Wilding</i></span></b></span><div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>It
is warming up a bit here in Vladivostok and was the perfect day for the
East Zone Conference. It was our last Zone Conference in that very room
and in the building that we have known to be "our Vladivostok Branch
Building". We will soon be in a temporary location until our new
building (which is in the final stages of construction) is completed--we
are hoping to be attending church there by January 2018!</i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="image1.JPG" class="CToWUd a6T" id="m_38453612256225663641FA5CC9F-2812-4C67-9DB2-F52D35C99CB5" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dacdc6c6f1&view=fimg&th=15afb18b82893889&attid=0.1.1&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ97OheLNqCvnpUMnmRKphC3gbTrxdi2INgeBKUDDfL0-9N9YI3QSAP-AStLOUSRv03l099EygIxHw_AlPp6us_FAKm8wBrkx93yFPA6VDyyxQBoUQUtgnmqFXE&sz=s0-l75-ft&ats=1490879648726&rm=15afb18b82893889&zw&atsh=1" tabindex="0" /></i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Our
visual was a triangle of *Russian Language pronunciation at the top,
*The Plan of Salvation and *The Gathering of Israel at the base of the
triangle. Sister Perkinson taught the Plan of Salvation, Andrei -- a
Russian English teacher helped with our pronunciation! </i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="image2.JPG" class="CToWUd a6T" id="m_38453612256225663641E4B97A1-414D-4898-ABA4-A37CD91F5B99" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dacdc6c6f1&view=fimg&th=15afb18b82893889&attid=0.1.2&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ8swLJ3Ot7FWx4eJphzItBuwJKIbBtrmcO92LWE3-MlrTo6pKVQ_4Uo2JtkCtLEsKQKxC3e855MKDbzBH-kM5mciDEvgHnR8GcdHEj5X7HJSfj9JTxwr4ylObA&sz=s0-l75-ft&ats=1490879648726&rm=15afb18b82893889&zw&atsh=1" tabindex="0" /></i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Then
we surprised Elder Wilding who was conducting the meeting, with singing
"Happy Birthday Trifecta" to him and splurged with cake and ice cream
before lunch!</i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="image3.JPG" class="CToWUd a6T" id="m_38453612256225663646D72C3C1-DBF2-4ACC-A557-841E8C0688EA" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dacdc6c6f1&view=fimg&th=15afb18b82893889&attid=0.1.3&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ8Ff6QlJ7dLYq3SSWfej2vkFLMnHZzclu49fsqiELKQM0XwNvvM3u53iKto2buTVYBA68gCQAmJbTjhADQqB_IbK_netGqHw6WEdAiM0MeydlrA4Qt0B3A4jZM&sz=s0-l75-ft&ats=1490879648726&rm=15afb18b82893889&zw&atsh=1" tabindex="0" /></i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Then
Elder Gee did an amazing job teaching us what he had learned about the
Gathering of Israel! It was very well done! We had beautiful musical
numbers a Medley by Elder Barr on the violin and a quartet by Elder Gee,
Elder Barr, Elder Lawrence and Elder Baugh. Well done!</i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="image4.JPG" class="CToWUd a6T" id="m_3845361225622566364835EE8E1-2385-420B-AE93-3D79FF7D942A" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dacdc6c6f1&view=fimg&th=15afb18b82893889&attid=0.1.4&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ9fDSEWLa752rm_njX5XKgbiU0_zRSCLBcdM4SYZHdhp5ja1zxPciTWdgv_uMSAGBL5b74v5dolOTiHicFItPg2cTTLNLmXgv_BrdOpNj0rkDTSgv4l29TY7xc&sz=s0-l75-ft&ats=1490879648726&rm=15afb18b82893889&zw&atsh=1" tabindex="0" /></i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Opportunities
were given to share ideas of great conversations with our friends about
the Book of Mormon, The First Vision and the need to pray, Study
scriptures and attend Sacrament weekly. Elder Gee organized a buzz
session down the halls of the building! President concluded with a topic
on turning knowledge to intelligence. The spirit spoke to each of us
individually and the opportunity to share what we learned benefited all
who were present!</i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><img alt="image5.JPG" class="CToWUd a6T" id="m_384536122562256636405748E94-A4A8-48A1-8CCA-79921042AE9D" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dacdc6c6f1&view=fimg&th=15afb18b82893889&attid=0.1.5&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ-nDwkn0EkAiJrzkW9snb_Xy5pRf5a8P-rcEP4XgblIKGZ1933v48djBdiJMS_B8I-wwU4GqkAWDoU17jhCtmnjSVmGF_oZLf3mHWo0_EHRrlM6eU_b8OvhyKQ&sz=s0-l75-ft&ats=1490879648726&rm=15afb18b82893889&zw&atsh=1" tabindex="0" /></i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>We
are grateful for the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ that
guides us in our lives and we are grateful for your prayers as we
diligently seek for daily guidance to Do The Lord's Work here in our
perspective areas in the Vladivostok Mission! The Gospel of Jesus Christ
is the source of our light!</i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Sincerely,</i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>President and Sister Perkinson</i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Vladivostok Russia</i></span></b></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<img alt="Displaying image6.JPG" aria-hidden="true" class="aLF-aPX-J1-J3 aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=dacdc6c6f1&view=fimg&th=15afb18b82893889&attid=0.1.6&disp=emb&attbid=ANGjdJ99upEHzEqGGfhmJmrD7YvlnQVNzXveQ-xjovwAqKUEDPfqzdBCYj4Bo58w6oPIsCeZQxGIp9Vd45rf4fPM8B4ANBr2Iwj7Hf_Irw3srHBumnkc49evidNYmQw&sz=s0-l75-ft&ats=1490879648726&rm=15afb18b82893889&zw&atsh=1" /></div>
<div style="color: #454545; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">
<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i>Elder
Wilding did a great job conducting the Zone Conference meeting. He is
also our Vladivostok District Leader! Today we took a picture too!</i></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Birthday Cake for McKay made by Sister Perkinson</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With Elder De Sandre</span></b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The sign on the building says Eat Drink and Dance (be merry)</span></b></td></tr>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-50137852675239248382017-03-20T07:18:00.000-06:002017-04-02T07:30:01.550-06:00Spring is Almost Here<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">What a fast week. </span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Things are starting to warm up.
You can walk outside without a coat and feel pretty safe that a babushka
won't yell at you for not dressing warm enough. Mornings are still cold
though so I still go out with a coat. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Sorry for not sending
photos. At the place which we email it is a little hard to send them but I
should have a lot for you coming next week.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We
are starting to get a feel of the work now. We meet with an old
investigator from our phone (who I actually met a year ago while on
splits in Vlad) and just walked around the city with him and talked. He
has been investigating for several years now. Our meeting went pretty
good. We agreed that we would read the Book of Mormon together and then
play chess after. I am on the lookout for a chess club in Vlad. We met
S from that in Sakhalin and it is a great place to meet people. The
only catch is that when you play chess you usually think more and talk
less. V (a friend we met at family night) is a complete master at the
piano. He has memorized so many classical music songs from the great
composers like Mozart and Bach and Beethoven. We met with him this week,
we were hoping that he would be interested in hearing about what we
believe but after talking to him it seems like no. It's too bad he is a
great kid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I gave a talk in church. My topic
was the Holy Ghost. I told of story where we were removing bushes out of
the yard and Dad had a feeling to tell Taylor to move from where he was
and then when we started and the chain came untied and flew to the place
that Taylor was at just seconds earlier. My talk went well!</span></div>
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<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="m_-2952570591210019092gmail-aBn">On Saturday</span>
night Elder Barr and Elder De Sandre performed a concert in the church.
They played a lot of different stuff like Imagine Dragons and Mumford
and Sons and stuff like that. We had like 70 people show up! They did
great performing! I was really impressed. They had a a few other people
help them out. They had a violin, a piano, drums and a guitar. Me and
Elder Bacon made banana bread for it. A group of 16-19 olds showed up at
the end. They were nice. Whenever they would talk about something and
want to say that it is cool they would say "that is a beautiful topic"
haha. It was a good way to meet people. It almost makes me wish that I
knew how to play an instrument... almost.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Zone Conference is on my birthday. I hope you all have a great week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding </span></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-46186329996045569442017-03-13T15:37:00.000-06:002017-03-13T15:37:01.620-06:00Happy Woman's Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Already more than a full week in Vlad. I still don't know the
names of as many members as I want, but the city is starting to become
less of a puzzle. That is not to say that I no longer get lost because
that literally happened <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">on Saturday</span></span>, late at night and we had to call a taxi, but a mental map is starting to be made in the brain. </span><br />
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<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We had a busy week. Every <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">Monday</span></span>
in Vlad they hold a family night at the Crookston's (a senior couple)
apartment. They have a spiritual thought and have us translate. I had
translated this time and it went well. There are some phrases that
Elder Crookston said that were really hard to translate and so I took a long
round about way to convey the idea. Then we had food and played a
game. We met a guy there who is a piano teacher and he sounded
interested in meeting! Then <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span>
we have culinary night which is an activity where a companionship
teaches how to make some dish and when they finish showing how they pull
the pre-made finished product out of the oven. It is basically a
cooking show. And at the activity we speak in English. We had 38
attend last week! It was nuts!</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">The 8th of
March was Woman's Day and our branch presidency had the idea of doing
hand made cards for all the sisters in our branch. So we helped make
those and they ended up looking like the ones I made when i was in 1st
grade but it's the thought that counts! Then <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">on Sunday</span></span> before we gave them out we sang Love At Home for them. It was fun. The branch is awesome here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">One
of the returning members that we are working with told us about a
discount that was going on for the Aquarium on Russian Island. We got
in for half the price. The aquarium was stunning! We also got to watch
a dolphin show which not only included dolphins but a walrus doing sit
ups. The place was huge and they had a lot of animals. We all went
down as a district. We also got to help one of our members remove a
cabinet in their house. The cabinet was too big to fit through the door,
we kept on jiggling it and trying to force it through with little
success. Then they brought us a hatchet and told us to go to work!!!
You should have seen it, me and Bacon in an apartment staircase wailing
on this huge cabinet with a mini ax. We kept all of our fingers and
toes but the cabinet took a pretty bad beating. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">The
AP's came on splits with us this week and ended up sleeping over for 2
nights. While on the split a crazy generous member took us out to a little
coffee shop and bought us so much food. Then he drove us home. We didn't
even ask him to do any of these things, he is just that kind. </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We
were also able to attend an American football practice! You heard me
right football in Russia. They are the only team in this city and
probably aren't much better than a average high school team but they are
the champions of the east of Russia. They kept on asking us for advice
and thought it was sick that we played in high school.</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">It has been a very eventful week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Love,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding</span></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-39594875749112855222017-03-06T13:38:00.001-07:002017-03-06T13:50:22.993-07:00Churikinhood Living<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">At the start of this week I said all of my goodbyes and wrote in a few
members transfer journals. We went over to a sweet families house <span class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aQJ">on Monday</span></span>
for FHE and gave them one of my name-tags. The mother has a tree that
she made out of name-tags with probably already around 20-30 names. I
was honored to leave it there. That leaves me down to my last and final
name-tag that is magnetic. I don't know what happened to my others,
but maybe they will turn up one day. Then the next day we taught R
the Plan of Salvation (which went good) and ended up going to another
family's house for dinner. I played one of the kids in chess that
almost feels like a little brother to me and he beat me, it wasn't even
close. I beat him last time and was planning on leaving with that
winning streak but he insisted we played. Serving with Elder Lawrence
these last 2 transfers I consider some of the funnest of my whole
mission. It never really hit me that I was leaving until I was already
gone. I really miss Sakhalin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We flew in to Artyom <span class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aQJ">on Wednesday</span></span>
day and traveled to Vlad to try and meet with a man that Elder Lawrence
met on his plane to Russia. He wasn't there unfortunately but we had
Sharma so I was happy. Then we flew to Korea the next morning and were
able to get into two sessions and perform baptisms and confirmations.
Actually, that was the first time I have ever baptized
anyone. It
was excellent being in the temple. It always gets me ready for what is
coming next. It is a great feeling. The next morning the Nielsons
(senior
missionaries there who are from Brigham City) took us up to a little
outside work out area. It was a great trip!</span></div>
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<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We
made it back the next day to the motherland safe and sound. We finally
made it to our apartment Thursday
night. We are in the area of Churkin also now as Churkinhood. It is a
good place. Kinda away from the center of town. It takes 40 min. by
bus to drive to the church. The city is HUGE. We take a lot of buses
and a lot of our money goes to those bus drivers. The city is super
hilly and extremely windy. I get sore just from walking around and it
is much colder than Sakhalin. The branch is amazing! So many cool and
nice people live here. Apparently the activities we have get huge
attendance. I have heard a lot about his city and whether or not they
are true only time will tell. I'm happy to be here. Being whitewashed
is a little bit of a struggle. We don't know any of the members or
investigators and sometimes when we call they are a little confused.
Getting to know the city is a fun adventure. We haven't got lost yet!
Elder Bacon is great! He is from Arizona and has been on the mission a
little over a year. He is a wiz with directions and only needs to be
somewhere once in order to know how to get there again. It is 100%
thanks to him that we haven't got lost yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love you guys! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding</span></div>
<span style="color: #20124d;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #20124d;"><u>***The photos below are from McKay's Mission President's wife along with this note:</u></span></i></b></span><br />
<pre class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-K0-aPE m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is our new Vladivostok District: Chapman, Gee, Barr, Carlson, Jameson, Wilding, DeSandre, Williams, Burningham and Bacon.
We want to thank you for your part in preparing Elder Wilding to serve the Lord here with us! </span></span></i></b></span></pre>
<pre class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-K0-aPE m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He is a good Elder and is now serving as the District Leader here. </span></span></i></b></span></pre>
<pre class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-K0-aPE m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We thank you for your many prayers in our behalf! </span></span></i></b></span></pre>
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<pre class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-K0-aPE m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">*(2nd photo)-Saturday we discovered a little secret! Several Vladivostok Priesthood Brethren were gathered at the church doing </span></span></i></b></span></pre>
<pre class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-K0-aPE m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">some secret crafts! We are not sure what they are for, but we<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span>have a hunch because in Russia "Women's Day" is soon!</span></span></i></b></span></pre>
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<pre class="m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-K0-aPE m_-112519016802109073gmail-aLF-aPX-aLK-ayr-auR"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #20124d;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sincerely,
President and Sister Perkinson
Vladivostok Russia</span></span></i></b></span></pre>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-24763429300855375212017-02-27T14:40:00.000-07:002017-03-06T16:03:00.966-07:00Goodbye Sakhalin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hate to say it but I am leaving the island. I have enjoyed every second
of my time here and would have liked to stay longer but it seemed like a
transfer was <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">imminent</span> and I wasn't wrong. I guess all good things must
come to an end, at least in this life. I'm going to miss the mountains.
I will be now serving in Vladivostok, the big city, the city the
mission was named after. My new companion is Elder Bacon who came in
the same time as Elder Roosa, I've met him when he first got in and
maybe once after that. I looking forward to serve in Vlad. I may go
broke very quickly though because of the Sharma. I was already there
for 3 weeks over a year ago and enjoyed my time. I am going to be
serving in Churkin or as I hear people call it Churkin hood. We are
going to be whitewashed in, which just means that neither I or Elder
Bacon has served there. He is coming from Irkutsk and I from here. I
will be flying there on Wednesday and then to Korea and the temple and
by Friday evening I should be in my new apartment.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On
Saturday our investigator and also chess teacher S agreed to come
to the church and teach our members which were interested who to improve
their chess game. He is an absolute genius when it comes to chess
and loves the game. Two of our young men came and it was a good
activity! One of our young men plays really good and it was interesting
to watch him play against S. He plans to come back every Saturday
and do the same kind of activity, hopefully more people will come and
so that he can meet some more members. I have a good feeling about
Sergei, I think he'll find that this is the true church.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">At
just about exactly the same time I am leaving so is an American couple
that has been here for 10 years. The Severukins have left to continue
their mission in a new city and a different American couple is leaving
in about a month. The branch is losing so many people so rapidly!
There was a going away party for the Jones and for part of it, me and
Sister Kaprolova (who is also leaving) had to go up and do some game
where they would say a normal object and we would relate it to the
gospel. We had a friend of ours come. Either this week or last we had
an awesome miracle! We had an activity going on at the church and a
lady walks in who used to come to things. She had moved away because of
work and just got back. We got her number and she asked us to invite
her to activities! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We had our last mini MTC
and district meeting with the Severukins, like I said before they and
now serving in a different city and will not return for 10 months. They
are awesome! I am going to miss them, but there is a chance that I
will serve with them again if I stay in Vlad for the rest of my mission.
They are planning to serve there in approximately 4 months.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I gave my parting testimony and said all my goodbyes <span class="m_-7883517957522340870gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-7883517957522340870gmail-aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>. These are good people, I will miss them. I made a ton of good memories here. The future looks bright though! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Love,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br />Elder Wilding </span></span></div>
Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-37137328036157304692017-02-20T13:51:00.003-07:002017-02-21T19:47:43.243-07:00Russians, Chess, Boots, Parable Plays, and Transfers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Where to start....<br /><br />Well first off I am writing to you from inside
the church on a TV that we hooked a keyboard and a mouse up to. We
start p-day at <span class="m_-4151864838499895868gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-4151864838499895868gmail-aQJ">8 a.m.</span></span>.
We can finishing shopping in about 30 min. which leaves us with an hour
and half of free time that we don't know what to do with. The library
opens at 10 and almost nothing in Russia is open before that besides
flower shops (which are open 24/7 for absolutely no reason) and grocery
stores. So we decided that we would just go right to the church.
lt is a lot better idea, we should have been doing this before. For
one
it's free and secondly we always have to come here anyways afterwards
to send pictures (....I guess not always, sorry mom...). So here we go.<br /><br />For
some reason we have been meeting so many "interesting" people lately. I
was starting to think that everybody in the city was nuts until Sister
Kaprolava who is a native Russian said that before her mission she
thought everybody in Russia was normal. I guess back home I didn't go
on the streets everyday trying to find someone, anyone who would listen
to me. For example we met this man on the streets who seemed really
cool. We were busy at the time he wanted to meet, so the sisters met
with him but we came in on the end of the lesson. He claimed that he is
the Holy Ghost and that in some of us were reptile people and then he
proceeded to cast them out of us. I probably should have thanked him
for
his service. He came again <span class="m_-4151864838499895868gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-4151864838499895868gmail-aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>
and wouldn't you believe it that the Sunday School lesson was on the
Holy Ghost hahahaha!! I'm not sure but that has to be ironic.<br /><br />Also
we have been meeting so many good, sincere, cool people! For example
we met S 2-3 weeks ago at a chess club, he speaks English. When I
first met him we played chess, I ended up losing but not doing too
bad. Turns out that he is a chess teacher and was just letting me do
alright not to crush my feelings haha. We went over to his place today
to teach him about the plan of salvation. He had been keeping his
commitment though of reading the Book of Mormon and had so many
questions about that that we didn't even have any time to teach him
about
the plan of salvation. He is smart and asks good questions. It's cool
he will ask a question for example about polygamy or some other things
that seem strange to those who are not members of our church, then he
will attentively listen to our answer and understand and accept it and
then move on to the next question. And as a bonus after every lesson he
teaches us something cool about chess! This time he had me and Elder
Lawrence play each other in chess and he would make comments on our
moves
whether they were weak or strong and what we could have done that would
have been better. I made a lot of dumb moves but somehow came off the
victor. He didn't make it easy though, I had to kill all his pieces
before it was over.<br /><br />We finally bought a USB adapter that hooks up
to our TV and ever since that we have been watching Bible videos and
listening to talks every night. It is actually really really nice but
crazy how much faster the time seems to fly. Also last Monday we went
bowling with the sisters. We ended up playing 3 games. The first I was
rusty and was mediocre, the second I was on fire but ended bad and the
third game I shouldn't of even played - it was awful! Also something
fun
the branch put on production where families in the church dress up and
act out parables. We as a district had the parable of the
ungrateful servant, I'll try to send some pictures it was really fun!<br /><br />My
beloved Alaskas (my boots) are ruined. They are full of holes and have
some paint on them from when we painted the Book of Mormon ice
sculpture. I am going
to buy new shoes today hopefully for a good price at the market. It is
starting to warm up so I won't buy more boots. I want a dress shoe
that I can zip up so that I don't have to tie them. We finished the
challenge of sewing 35 blankets! They are now all packed up and ready
for delivery. Nikolai came and helped twice before his trip to the
north of Sakhalin to see his family. He is going to be gone a month.
Transfers are <span class="m_-4151864838499895868gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-4151864838499895868gmail-aQJ">this Thursday</span></span> and I think I might be leaving so that might be the last time I see him in a long time. But hey there is always Facebook!<br /><br />The Argyles had us over for lunch yesterday, we had BACON!!!! If I leave I am going to deeply miss this place.<br /><br />Love, </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding</span><br />
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-64496100712634608942017-02-13T21:27:00.001-07:002017-02-13T21:27:20.876-07:00A Time of Training - A Time of Chess<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">So, I should be writing home a little bit early now becasue of the new change to our P-day schedule. <br /><br />Good Week! We met a lot of new people. N came to church <span class="m_-1489493201215680115gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-1489493201215680115gmail-aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>
and received the Aaronic priesthood. I had the privilege of giving him
that priesthood. It was a great experience. N has a month long vacation and <span class="m_-1489493201215680115gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-1489493201215680115gmail-aQJ">in two days</span></span>
he will be heading up to the north of Sakhalin for about a month. We
are sad that he is leaving but will still keep talking to him on the
phone. <br /><br />One of our new investigators who actually is a chess
teacher taught us a thing or two. I was amazed by the amount of strategy
that goes into that game. He was showing us how we should start a
game and what to do if on the board is only kings and a pawn and most
importantly how to put some poor fellow in checkmate in two moves. <br /><br />The
branch is in the process of sewing blankets (35 to be exact) for those in
need. It is a big project and we have been able to help a little.
Besides all the new investigators, most of our
other lessons have revolved around teaching the members the new goals
that the area presidency put out. <br /><br />The gospel is true. I am blessed to be out here. Thanks for all your prayers!<br /><br />Elder Wilding
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-3568709080201593282017-02-06T07:17:00.000-07:002017-02-06T07:17:55.220-07:004 Elders!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">The AP's came down this week. Having 4 in one apartment makes everything
more fun! It is was like I was back in Angarsk again! They arrived Wednesday morning and left Sunday
after church. They came to have a conference with us where we watched a
new training for all volunteers. The conference was pretty great and
now we finally have our new schedule. The major changes are that now we
have more time on P-days (3 hours!!!!) and we plan in the morning
instead of the night. </span><br />
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<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We went to a chess club and
got a nice old man's number, his name is S and he is going to teach
me how to play chess better. He is a Baptist and I think would be open
to our message. We almost had service at the zoo but when we called
back they said that it wouldn't work out because we need some special
license or something to be around live animals.</span></div>
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<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We went over to a member who is from the Netherlands and had really good dinner! And a 8 year old girl just got baptized <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">on Saturday</span></span> by her dad!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They was basically my week (according to my memory) . Sorry that it is kinda small. Thanks for all the support!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding </span></div>
Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-46341797086324235562017-01-30T19:27:00.003-07:002017-01-30T19:27:31.382-07:00Russian Rappers and Breaking Tombs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Aloha!</span><div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Fun week, we got some more snow and did some
fun service. Our friend max showed us the parts that he bought for his
computer that he is making himself and he bought all the most expensive
parts he could. This world was completely foreign to me but Lawrence
seemed to understand what he was talking about. We got fed twice this
week. I honestly can't think of a Russian who has fed me who isn't a
great cook.... everything I have got so far has been magically delicious.</span></div>
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<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We
had to take down the Book of Mormon this week. All the paint
melted off and left his eerie blue ghost color on it and most people
that passed thought it was a tomb stone. It was a labor of love when we
made it and it was sad to see her go down after all the hard work that
we put into her. We basically just javelened our ice breakers and
shovels into her until she broke at the bottom and then a bigger problem
started when all the surrounding snow was covered with blue paint. We
had to shovel it all out and hope that a big snow plow comes and takes
it away. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">One of our members brought her
friends to game night. He is 16 years old and an aspiring rapper. He
showed us some of his stuff and despite the fact that I understood
nothing that was said, it was pretty good. Apparently rap is taking
over Russia right now. But in Russian you don't rap rap, you read rap.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I
took part in an interesting service, we showed up at a cross country
ski race thinking we could help by giving out medals or something but we
ended up wearing huge animal costumes and they just wanted us to go
around dancing and take pictures with people. I'll try to send a
picture! I was a hedgehog, it was fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Well, that about does it for this week, I hear some big changes are coming up
for use related to our schedule. Hope you all have a fantastic week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding</span></div>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-43894925756055793342017-01-23T09:14:00.000-07:002017-01-23T09:14:12.024-07:002 Russians, 2 Americans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Good day family!</span><br />
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<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Good first week of the transfer! A
lot of area book work and trying to find new investigators. We have a
good maybe 10-15 potentials we could try to work with. All the rest in
the area book were either tried in the past and aren't interested or не
доступен (means not available and is an awful plague of Russia). Hopefully
some of these people will be interested.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
are thinking about taking the Book of Mormon this week. In her full
glory she only lasted about 2 days. The paint started to melt off and
the letters went with it. Without the letters most people assume it is a
tombstone. We had a lot of people ask us about it when we were making
it and gave a guy a number because of it but besides that we haven't got
any interested people from it, at least not yet. But despite all that,
making it was way worth it! We actually were planning on making a Bible
right next to it to show that we believe in both, but it is just too
hot
here.<i> <b>***</b></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We received a new Russian sister to our
mission, not only to our mission but to Sakhalin. Considering that we
have a Russian couple already serving here and that Sister Kapralova is
staying, we are out numbered by the Russians. And it's awesome! This is
going to do wonders for my language. The sister is from Moscow and
seems really smart. We have a great district.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">The
Argyles (American family) had us over for lunch yesterday. That was so
tasty! They had BBQ sauce which I don't think I have had since the
MTC. Speaking of food we made a nice batch of chum chum this week it it
lasted us probably 4 days. I might have to buy mass amounts of that
sauce and fill my suit cases with it and bring it home. If not I will
have large withdrawals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">We haven't got much snow
since last email. The city has been going around and knocking down huge
icicles. They set barriers around big buildings on the main roads
because it would ruin your day if one of those fell on you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for all your supports and love!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><br clear="all" /><i><b><span style="font-size: small;">***Note from Mom - the current weather there is 14 below - a heat wave!</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-31880033297539805382017-01-17T17:14:00.003-07:002017-01-17T17:14:15.717-07:00SNOW HAS FINALLY COME<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">What's Up Everybody,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-size: large;">This has been if not the best,
then
one of the best weeks of my whole mission and quite possibly my life.
It started off being really really cold that provided the perfect
environment for us to re-paint the Ice Book of Mormon. It froze on
almost immediately after we applied it. We finished it and I'll send
pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then after many miracles N
was baptized!!! His service was spiritual and uplifting and he told us
that whole day after his baptism he felt indescribably happy. One
of the miracles we saw teaching him was the 21st of December when we
committed him to quit smoking. He would of been baptized in the past
except for the fact that he just couldn't quit. On his way home after
our lesson somebody asked him for a cigarette and he just gave him the
whole box. From that day he hasn't smoked. We see how God prepared him
becasue he said that this time it was easy to quit. Prayer and fasting
really does work. Then he got the gift of the Holy Ghost <span class="m_6694209919049578581gmail-aBn"><span class="m_6694209919049578581gmail-aQJ">on Sunday</span></span>,
but he scared us to death because he showed up 20 minutes late and his
phone wasn't working. Everything worked out in the end though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We
finally got our first blizzard, honestly probably still less than you
but the snow hasn't stopped yet and we'll see where that takes us. I
have so many pictures I need to send. I hope that makes up for the
shortness of this letter. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand
words.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Love </span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Elder Wilding </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>BAPTISM!!!</b></span></span></td></tr>
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Jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09127736742254236707noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477067427470278942.post-6976972866980230922017-01-08T19:22:00.001-07:002017-01-08T19:22:03.764-07:00Giant Snow Book of Mormon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">The new year seems just as good as the last with high potential to be
even better. Most of our free time this week was spent on the title of
this email. A week ago revelation was received to build this thing, we
built her out of snow and water, block by block until she stands in her
majesty about 10 ice blocks high and 3 ice blocks wide. I will make
sure to
send a picture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The giant Book of Mormon seemed
absolutely perfect, all we had left to do was paint the outside cover
blue and carve in "Книга Мормона". And this is where everything went
wrong. We painted it and <span class="m_-8565712296753514333gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-8565712296753514333gmail-aQJ">within 30 minutes</span></span>
almost all of it came off creating a huge mess of blue snow all around
the base. We tried a few other methods but that just made it worse. It
became a nightmare of a mess to clean up. Most people just ended up
thinking that it was a grave stone, we are going to try to spray paint
the "Книга Мормона" letters this week.</span><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nikolai is still doing awesome! His baptism will be <span class="m_-8565712296753514333gmail-aBn"><span class="m_-8565712296753514333gmail-aQJ">this Saturday</span></span>.
Along with him we got a new investigator named R. He has came to
church like 4 times already but he has always been too busy to meet. He
just loves sacrament meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our sacrament
meeting was interesting to say the least, it was a fast and testimony
meeting and a few people threw out their political views but the spirit
was brought back into it at the end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a
great blessing to have the Severpuxins serving with us. We do a mini MTC
meeting with them every week. They are the first senior couple to come
out from our mission ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The promises of
Sakhalin snow have up to this point been nothing but lies. God is just
teaching me to be patient I guess. I have been told that February ALWAYS
gets tons of snow. We'll see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hope everyone else had a great start to the new year!</span></div>
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